Local notes on surveys, health, events and ads
Browneheim surveyor report approved by county commissioners with minor changes. City free of contagious disease except two West Side scarlet fever cases. Thanksgiving dances, meals, and notices from LaGrange and local businesses. Accidents, divorces, weddings, hospital operations, and various ads plus remote notices involving Webb, Wilbeck, Jayne, and Dowd families. Holiday events and health cures fill the community record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bachman
Browneheim
Board of Health
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea Promises Kidney Cure
An advertisement claims rheumatism gout backache and acid poison arise from kidney trouble and that Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea goes directly to the seat of the disease and cures when all else fails. Priced at 35 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
A Regular Circus At Wady s Drug Store
A man buys Vinel at Eady s Drug Store and tells a tale of a sick child who improved after taking Vinel rather than cod liver oil. He champions Vinel as a delicious, effective tonic that strengthens children and the elderly, with a money back guarantee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wady
Moore
Vinci
Eady
Demand for Dimples Inspires New Beauty Trend
A New York Sun report describes beauty shops thriving on a growing fad for dimples. Stylists claim dimples are now acquired and tailored, with varied shapes and techniques.
Dimple Fashion and Local Notices From 1903
A column mixes beauty advice praising dimples with steps to create them and maintain a youthful look. It notes fashions in eye shape, lips, teeth, and eyebrows. Also reports a divorce ruling, Thanksgiving visits, new skating rink hours, and a digestion remedy advertisement.
Tips in Department Stores Raise Shopper Tug of War
A New York trend shows tipping growing among department store clerks despite a new law for purchasing agents. An experienced shopper notes failure to tip leads to poor service and cites store graft from discarded change. The practice concentrates small amounts into significant sums over days, with terms like white money for silver valued at 98.
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New York
Bometia
Christmas Card Fashion in the 1860s
The early Christmas card tradition began in 1848 but only a few were mailed by 1862. The trend then shifted to larger cards the size of visiting cards bearing the simple inscription A Merry Christmas.
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Union
Tit Hobinson
Tanck UK
Gorner Store
LaGrange
Uf. A
A. R. Webber
No. 1Dos Lith Street
N. W
Donald
Kr. G. Wilbeck
Judson Starr
Spencer
McDonald
Lily Power
David A. Jayne
Charleston
W. Va
J. Buell
Kimbas
Fifth Street
Hast Avenue
Stars
Elyria High School
G. A.R. Hall
C. M. Leonard
I. D. Faxon
H. B. Somers
Sweet
J. B. Dillman
Elyria Busi
J. C. €Risy
Margaret Moriarity
Toledo
Eastern Heights
Conry & Mueller
Sadie Johnson
Adrian, Mich
Wlsie Johnson
J. Ed. Betteridge
Jane Abbes
Cleveland
Belle Tibbitt
Carrie Sevecoul
Medina
China Shop
Bavelay
Garvin Avenue
Cushing
Martin Blue
Mary Taylor
Mallett Creek
Medina Co
Kennedy
W. H. Dowd
San Francisco
Cal
L. P. Baxtine
Norwalk
Timely Root
Sylvia Root
EH. Doolittle
Oberlin
West Salem
Wooster
Jconry & Mueller
Parkside
Cheapside
Frank Elliot
Murbach Jeweler
Corner Broad and
Maxer
New York Sun
Traxler’s Music Store
Sweet Block
Tam
Lam
Paris
Mary G. Thompson
Thomas Thompson
Washburne
Thompson
Rose Dowd
Anna Cass
Garry
M. M. Dowd
Glen's Holler Skating Rink
Jay
Dorothy Dodd’ Varalty Booth
Taany
Philpott's
Syria
THE
Elyria Telephone Company
Ates
Mendelson
Broad St
Elyria
Childr
vReathier
Siegs & Everard Co
Andrew F. Burrell
Middle Ave
Rawson
Farm Implement Co
the Farm Implement Co
East Broad St
Elyria, O
R. W. Gammel
Euclid Ave
Cleveland, Ohio
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